General Research Thomas Prislac General Research Thomas Prislac

Credentials by Other Means

The one-click assistant. The QR code. The collaboration invite. The private channel. The voice that sounds familiar enough. The beta app with a gorgeous interface and a vague privacy policy. These are no longer mere conveniences. They are border crossings.

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Coherence in AI: Empathy × Transparency as a New Governance Paradigm

Imagine an AI system as an orchestra. Each section (its knowledge, reasoning, ethics) needs to play in tune, following the same score. The strings (representing empathy) must harmonize with the brass (representing transparency). If one plays out of sync or goes silent, the performance falls apart. In the realm of advanced AI oversight, this “harmony” is what the Coherence Lattice project aims to measure and enforce. It introduces a simple but powerful equation: Ψ = E × T, meaning coherence (Ψ) equals empathy (E) times transparency (T)[1]. At first glance it’s a neat formula, but behind it lies a comprehensive framework, a sort of grand unified theory of AI coherence, that could change how we govern intelligent systems.

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Coherent Interaction Prompts: Designing Safe, High-Fidelity Human–AI Communication in an Age of Pattern-Seeking Minds

As conversational AI moves from laboratory novelty to daily collaborator, the greatest safety challenge is not hostile output but relational drift: unbounded attachment, projection, or authority transfer during long-form dialogue. This article situates Coherent Interaction Prompts (CIPs) as a systems-control environment for maintaining empathic and informational stability in human–AI exchanges.

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